Æ31 - Antoninus Pius ΕΠΙ ΔΙΟϹΚΟΥΡΙΔΟΥ ΓΡΑΤΟΥ ΜΗΤΡΟ ΜΑΓΝΗΤ ΛΕΥΚΟΦΡΥϹ

Magnesia ad Maeandrum's claim to the title *Metropolis* and the epithet *Leucophryene* — after the sanctuary of Artemis Leucophryene — was a fiercely contested civic honor during the imperial period. The magistrate named in the obverse legend, Dioskourides Gratos, served as the local official responsible for authorizing this bronze issue, a practice that gave provincial elites both administrative visibility and a form of permanent civic record. Magnesia pressed its metropolitan claims aggressively under the Antonines, and coin production was one tool for doing so.